daoldiges The King's Speech is well made and is full of solid performances. The timing of the King's ascension to the thrown coinciding with the war does add interest to the story. The two males leads play well off of one another, which is the glue that makes this film work. It held my interest but otherwise not what I felt compelling.

grantss Great movie, driven by a great cast.Colin Firth and Geoffrey Rush are excellent as King George VI and Lionel Logue respectively, and both deserve their Oscar nominations. Great performances from the supporting cast too - especially Helena Bonham Carter (as Queen Elizabeth), Guy Pearce (as King Edward VIII) and Michael Gambon (as King George V).Direction is flawless: pacing is spot on, story flows well, cinematography cannot be faulted. Script is solid.Not the best movie of 2010/11, no matter what happened at the Oscars, but one of the best.

cinemajesty Movie Review: "The King's Speech" (2010)At a time when radio broadcasts took their stain on newly-created human mass media demands, the radio device as powerful tool of seduction, manipulation and conviction became a worldwide phenomenon in mobilizing populations in a decade of the war-mongering world of late 1930s.Director Tom Hooper, known for the infamous excellent-executed HBO mini-series "John Adams" in season 2007/2008, rules a original script by David Seidler based on true events with pitch-perfect blocking within composing a 1.85:1 aspect ratio wide-screen full-frame, shot on rarely-received, yet visually-convincing 35mm filmstock in extreme-wide lenses of character close-up gripping cinematography by Danny Cohen, when leading actor Colin Firth presents the emphasisms of an over-demanding part of King George VI to full emotional extensions in constant beat work of needle-pin-pointing proportions in gesture and voice supported by fellow acting colleague Geoffrey Rush, performing as light-hearted, leisure-to-relaxation indulging character of Lionel Logue; who then together build one of the most adorable friendships in cinema history, which in its less then 120-minutes-paced editorial by Tariq Anwar can be enjoyed as a timeless piece of motion picture entertainment without losing punch of conviction when an unless fulminate simplistic score by composer Alexandre Desplat steps aside for high-suspense montage of King George VI holding his famous speech onto the nation, declaring War on Nazi-Germany in late 1939 under Ludwig van Beethoven's composition of Symphony VII.The supporting cast organized by long-term Industry-insider Nina Gold brings together the finest actors of a contemporary cinematic landscape including actress Helena Bonham Carter, portraying as Queen Elizabeth in restrainted fashionable royal manners leading her husband, actor Michael Gambon shifting in his range from a visciously-demanding father on Christmas Eve to a dementia-armchair-struck old man as the character of King George V; when actor Guy Pearce shares beats of playboy-maximes-manifesting, younger-brother-pushing King Edward VIII, who eventually lies down his coronation-infested obligations for the life of leisure and bliss at mansion of the Cote d'Azur, when further actor Derek Jacobi completes the circle of supports as king-making, sacred-coronation-chair-guarding Archbishop Cosmo Lang at Westminster Abbey in constant tension-building scenes of rare exception in a classic genre of drama.Director Tom Hooper shows his strengths by pairing dramatic moments as childhood confessions of abuse by King George VI under atmospheric bluish skylight atmosphere in a memorable paint-splintered hide-out room of London surburbias, when suprisingly slight infusions of tasteful comedy, especially in the King's vocal exercise scenes, make this Academy-Award-Winning Best Picture produced by Iain Canning and Emile Sherman at See-Saw-Films a success in every department.© 2018 Felix Alexander Dausend (Cinemajesty Entertainments LLC)

videorama-759-859391 I love it, watching two great actors strut their stuff, and here Rush and the amazing Firth don't drop their stuff. I have to admit, I enjoyed this movie, full of great memorable scenes and performances, more than I thought I would. It really got me in, and it's true. Set around the time of the Hitler regime, Firth, next in line for King, must first overcome his stammering, where again, as recalling one Aussie Idol contestant, who had a stuttering impairment, we see what an amazing part music, or singing can play, into eradicating this problem, here it'sa music from a turn table. With Daddy on his deathbed, Firth, such a stubborn character, is sent to a speech therapist, the solid flawless Rush, who slowly delves into the why's, and cracks at the root of the problem, Firth's disfavored childhood, and we'll feel so sorry for him. His selfish, aristocratic younger brother, Pearce, is up for the throne too. Pearce kind of tries too hard with his role, and sort of comes off artificial, while Helena Bonham Carter, such a great actress, mlends fine support as Firth's wife, where Timothy Spall and Anthony Andrews add memorably solid, in smaller supporting parts, especially Spall. And then there's the speech, the greatest and memorably high point scene, wonderfully recreated, as too the first rate set. Essentially it's Firth's movie, and he has you at every scene, in a amazingly brilliant performance, worth the ticket of admission alone. Essential viewing. Rush's digs, is so cool.